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| Checking the quality of your AC Shasta: I think that you are "somewhat lucky" if you don't have any form of industry near you and your neighbors aren't generating and pumping electrical hash back into the AC lines. As such, I don't think that AC line noise is "over-hyped", but i... | |
| Who Does the Best Mods on CD Players Rockyboy, many "tweakers" simply minimize excess parts ( simplifying the circuitry and shortening the circuit path ) and end up going to higher grade passive parts ( resistors, capacitors, inductors, wire, rectifiers, etc... ) for the parts that a... | |
| Speaker placement at dealers Jeff, looks like we were typing and posting at the same time. Funny how we came up with the same basic thoughts after reading the same thread miles and miles apart. I guess some things remain somewhat consistent with the love of music / music repr... | |
| Speaker placement at dealers A shop here in Chicago that has come and gone long ago used to ask you what gear you wanted to hear and / or what price range you were looking in and then configure a system of your desire. If this meant wiring up something other than what they cu... | |
| Ever Have One Of Those Evenings? What was that Z ? I can't hear you over the ringing in my ears : ) Sean> | |
| Who Does the Best Mods on CD Players I would suggest calling up a few different "tweakers" and talking to them. When doing something of this nature, it is important to be very clear about what you want and expect and how much you will have to pay to get those results. It is also impo... | |
| What are best phono preamps under $500 ? Paul: I pretty much have to agree with you on this one. While most of the sales people at MD are nice folks and try hard, they are just that: SALES people. Some of them have very valid opinions on some of the products that they carry but i really ... | |
| Ever Have One Of Those Evenings? Sounds like Z has a pain in the ass to deal with and Jeff had a pain in the... Oh, never mind : ) I've only ever had a few "bad" things happen to me and luckily, nothing was damaged. This does not include the tweeters and mids that i've blown due ... | |
| Why is Double Blind Testing Controversial? We've covered this before. As such, all i'll add to this thread is that Craig and Albert cracked me up. If DBT threads are going to be good for laughs like that, bring them on : ) Sean> | |
| Room acoustics question... Ozfly: Acoustic tiles absorb sound at a very un-even rate. What i mean by that is that treble and upper mids are damped whereas mids and bass are left alone. This can skew the tonal balance, making it harder to achieve a natural and even tonal bal... | |
| Should the yellow lights flash on monster hts3600 I would try contacting Monster on this one. I am not familiar with their newer series of PLC's, so can't answer that one for you. Before calling them up though, i would consult the manual to see if it mentions anything about this.As far as the sou... | |
| Krell Amps vs others Pettyfeversk: Your Dynaudio's will take a million watts if you can feed it to them. So long as you keep the quality level of the power that they are being fed up to a high level, the more power that you can feed them, the better they will sound. W... | |
| Single wiring bi-wireable speakers This is a good one. Some would say to wire to the woofer posts as this is where the most current / signal is flowing. Others might say that you should wire to the mid / high section, as the sound there is more delicate. Putting "junky" jumpers in ... | |
| Surge Recovery - Burned PC board issue. Techs? What i would do in such a case is measure the resistance of the trace and connections themselves. If they seem to be resistive, it is probably best to bypass them. You can simply use a Dremel type tool with the correct tip or a sharp blade and sli... | |
| Mod for Phillips SACD 1000 If you haven't already, try using a different power cord and select filter position 3 on the back of the unit. I finally hooked mine up last night in my HT system. After briefly listening to it right out of the box, i put in the Ayre Acoustics tes... |